Hinxman: For San Fran to love him, Kaepernick's got to win big one

10:42 AM,
Dec. 9, 2012

Marc Tapiador of Daly CIty shops at the 49ers team store in Palo Alto Saturday.

Written by

Dan Hinxman
dhinxman@rgj.com

Dale Schaan, a San Francisco 49ers season-ticket holder for 30 years, believes Colin Kaepernick is the 49ers' quarterback of the present and the future. But he doesn't want him to be the next Joe Montana.

"I want him to win five Super Bowls," the 54-year-old hardwood floor salesman said Saturday from his bar-stool perch at Lefty O'Doul's, the city's famed eatery near Union Square. "But I want him to be the first Kaepernick."